《人与神圣》内容简介本书是人类学家罗杰·卡约瓦1930-1960年代关于神圣性问题研究的作品。神圣并非仅存在于宗教之中,战争、游戏、节庆、性、奢靡浪费……揭是人类为追求神圣性体验而启动的社会行为,而宗教只是神圣的表现形式之一。神圣性是人类独有的一种情感,既是个体存在的根本需求,也是社会必不可少的组成部分,无论种族、文化与信仰:先民敬拜自然,臣民膜拜圣人与君主,现代世界将主权、战争视为神圣……在这本社会人类学著作里,卡约瓦为读者描绘出一幅神圣的整体图景,介绍了它的主要特征,勾勒出它在社会中的主要表现形式,并呈现了它在历史中的演变。
本作承接法国社会学学派,尤其是涂尔干和莫斯的先行研究,同时综合了大量英美和德语世界社会人类学成果,并在最后延伸出作者自己关于神圣的独创见解——节日理论。论据方面几乎涵盖世界各地区的社会现象和人类学实例,既有美洲、非洲、大洋洲原住民文化和习俗,又有欧亚文明的神话传说、风俗习惯与文学记述,还通过参考法国汉学家葛兰言的著作,将中国古代,尤其是上古时期的种种文化现象纳入自己的讨论范围,旁征博引扎实充分。
作者简介
罗杰·卡约瓦(1913-1978)法国20世纪哲学家、人类学家、考古和文化遗产保护专家。曾与乔治·巴塔耶共同创立社会学学会,着力研究世俗社会中的神圣性问题。1972年当选法兰西学院(CollegedeFrance)院士。代表作有《游戏与人》《人与神圣》等,代表学说为“游戏分类理论”
Man and the Sacred is the work of the anthropologist Roger Cayowa, who studied the question of the sacred from the 1930s to the 1960s. Holiness does not exist only in religion, war, games, festivals, sex, extravagance... Revelation is a social behavior initiated by human beings for the pursuit of divine experience, and religion is only one of the forms of divine expression. Sacredness is a uniquely human emotion that is both a fundamental need for individual existence and an essential part of society, regardless of race, culture or belief: ancestors worshipped nature, subjects worshipped saints and monarchs, and the modern world regards sovereignty and war as sacred... In this social anthropological work, Cayowa gives the reader a holistic picture of the divine, introduces its main features, Outlines its main manifestations in society, and shows its evolution through history.
This work follows the pioneering research of the French sociological school, especially Durkheim and Moss, while synthesizing a large number of social anthropological achievements in the Anglo-American and German-speaking world, and finally extends the author's own original view on the sacred - festival theory. The arguments cover social phenomena and anthropological examples in almost all regions of the world, including the indigenous cultures and customs of the Americas, Africa and Oceania, as well as the myths, legends, customs and literary accounts of Eurasian civilization. By referring to the works of French Sinologist Graman, various cultural phenomena in ancient China, especially in ancient times, are included in his discussion scope. Solid and sufficient references.
About the author
Roger Cayowa (1913-1978) was a French 20th century philosopher, anthropologist, and expert in archaeology and cultural heritage conservation. He co-founded the Sociological Society with Georges Bataille, focusing on the question of sanctity in secular society. He was elected a member of the CollegedeFrance in 1972. His representative works include "Game and Man", "Man and the Sacred", etc. His representative theory is "game classification theory".